The Bookkeeping Practice Field Manual
132 copy-paste AI prompts for bookkeepers and small accounting practices — onboarding, chasing records, deadline season, pricing off the hourly, advisory conversations and firing a client.
Key Capabilities & Features:
- •The Practice Primer: paste your client count, software, fee model and deadline load once — every prompt after it writes for your practice
- •Pricing by client mess rather than by turnover, since a tidy £2m client takes less work than a chaotic £200k one and almost no fee structure reflects that
- •A four-level records chase with an honest check on which consequence you will actually enforce
- •An explicit line between bookkeeping and regulated advice, with the prompts instructed to flag when a question has crossed it
- •132 prompts across 8 sections — client onboarding, chasing records, queries & explanations, deadline season and more
- •Works with ChatGPT (GPT-5), Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 3.7 Flash — fill the bracket, paste, done
- Records Chasing Scripts — $24
- The Practice Pricing Pack — $22
Bought separately these come to $46. The full toolkit is $43.
One-time payment • Lifetime access & future updates
What's Inside
8 modules132 promptsEvery module below is included in the single purchase.
- 1
Client Onboarding
20 promptsEngagement scope written so it can be enforced, the information request that gets a complete response, expectations about what you do and do not do, and access setup.
- 2
Chasing Records
22 promptsThe four-level records chase, the client who sends a carrier bag in March, receipt capture people actually adopt, and the deadline consequence you will really enforce.
- 3
Queries & Explanations
20 promptsAsking about a transaction without sounding accusatory, explaining a figure to someone who finds accounts frightening, and the query list that gets answered in one pass.
- 4
Deadline Season
18 promptsTriage when everything lands at once, telling a client they will not make the deadline, capacity communication, and protecting the clients who were organised.
- 5
Pricing & Scope
20 promptsMoving off the hourly, pricing by client mess rather than by turnover, the fixed fee that stops working, and repricing a client whose business has changed.
- 6
Advisory Conversations
18 promptsThe management report a client reads, spotting something worth raising in their numbers, and staying on the right side of the line between bookkeeping and regulated advice.
- 7
Difficult Clients
8 promptsThe one who wants something you will not do, chronic lateness, the fee dispute, and disengaging from a client properly rather than becoming unresponsive.
- 8
Practice Growth
6 promptsReferral asks from accountants and clients, describing what you do to a non-accountant, and choosing which kind of client to stop taking.
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Bookkeeping fees are almost always set against the size of the client's business. The work is determined by the state of their records, and those two things have very little to do with each other.
The Bookkeeping Practice Field Manual is a 132-prompt playbook covering client onboarding, chasing records, queries and explanations, deadline season, pricing and scope, advisory conversations, difficult clients and practice growth.
Start with the Practice Primer — paste in your client count, software, fee model and deadline load — and every prompt after it writes for your practice.
The pricing section is the one that changes practices. A tidy business turning over two million takes less of your time than a chaotic one turning over two hundred thousand, and a fee scale built on turnover guarantees that your worst clients are your least profitable. The prompts build a mess-based pricing model and — harder — script the conversation that moves an existing client onto it.
Chasing records runs at four levels with the same honesty used elsewhere: it will tell you which consequence you are actually willing to enforce. A threat to disengage that you will not carry out costs you more than the missing paperwork.
The advisory section is careful about a real line. Explaining what a figure means is bookkeeping; advising on what someone should do about their tax position is regulated in most countries, and the prompts are instructed to flag when a question has crossed over rather than answering it.
Note: this is not tax, accounting or regulatory advice. Filing requirements, licensing and what constitutes regulated advice differ by country. Every prompt works from your own knowledge of your jurisdiction rather than asserting rules.
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| Customer Rating | 4.89(25) | 4.9(40) | 4.92(31) | 4.94(38) |
| AI Models | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash | GPT-5, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.7 Flash |
| Formats Included | PDF Prompt Playbook | PDF Prompt Playbook | PDF Swipe File | 64-Page PDF Playbook + 22 Worksheets |
| Lifetime Updates | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creator Rating | PromptWolf (99.2%) | Dr. Lucas Vance (99.2%) | Dr. Lucas Vance (99.2%) | Dr. Lucas Vance (99.2%) |
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Mess, not turnover
My smallest client was my least profitable by a wide margin and I had never separated the causes. Changing how their records arrive recovered more than a price rise would have.
It stopped at the advice line
I asked a question about what a client should do with a vehicle purchase and it declined, said that was regulated advice in most jurisdictions and it would not guess at mine. Exactly right.
Do not apologise for the increase
One line and it changed the whole conversation. I had been opening with an apology and then negotiating against myself.
Refuses a lot of questions
The regulated-advice boundary is drawn tightly and it will not budge. That is correct and it does mean you are still on your own for anything technical.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this tax or accounting advice?
No, explicitly. Filing requirements, licensing and what counts as regulated advice differ by country and change. The prompts are instructed to stop and flag when a question crosses from explaining a figure into advising on a tax position, rather than answering it.
Will it do the bookkeeping?
No. It handles the communication and commercial side — onboarding, chasing, queries, pricing, deadline management, difficult clients. The ledger work stays in your software and with you.
I am a sole practitioner. Is this scaled for a firm?
The Primer asks. Sole practitioners get the most from the pricing, chasing and deadline triage sections. The staff and capacity material assumes a team.
Does it work with my software?
It is software-agnostic. The Primer asks which you use so that references to receipt capture, bank feeds and client access make sense, but nothing depends on a particular product.
How is it delivered?
You receive a PDF with all 132 prompts organized into 8 sections, delivered within 24 hours of purchase. No app or account required — copy a prompt, fill in the bracketed variables, and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Can I use this for client work?
Yes. Your purchase includes a single-user commercial and personal license, so you can use every prompt in your own business or for client deliverables without restriction.